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My name is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com, where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term term ventilated adults and children with tracheostomies, where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term ventilated adults and children on non-invasive ventilation, such BIPAP (Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure), CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure), where we provide tailor-made solutions for patients, adults and children with tracheostomy without ventilation, cough assist management at home, ventilation weaning at home, Home TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition), home IV potassium, home IV magnesium, home IV fluids, home IV antibiotic infusions, Central line, PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter) line, Hickman’s line, and port management at home, (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy), PEJ (Percutaneous Endoscopic Jejunostomy) tube, nasogastric tube, nasojejunostomy tube management at home, SPC (suprapubic catheter), IDC (indwelling catheter) management at home, as well as palliative care at home.

Now, today I need to do something that breaks my heart, but it needs to be said loud and clear. Noah Johnston, who was one of our clients, should still be alive today. On December the 8th, 2025, 22-year-old Noah Johnston died when his ventilator tube disconnected during the night. He died alone, without the critical care registered nurse support that would have saved his life, support that the NDIS had removed from his plan two years earlier, and this article had, or there was a big article yesterday, by the time of me recording this, on January the 16th, 2026, from Julie Cross, one of the Daily Telegraph reporters. I will link to that article in a minute, so there has been big media exposure. And I’m very grateful that Kylie, Noah’s mom, has gone to the media.

So, like I said, Noah was one of our clients. We knew him, we cared for him, and we fought alongside his mom, Kylie, to get the support he desperately needed to be reinstated. Some of our senior nurses have given evidence at the AAT, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, for the NDIS. So, we were all the way along with Noah.

And it’s a tragedy that didn’t need to happen. Noah had cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and chronic lung disease. He was completely ventilator-dependent with tracheostomy, meaning he could not take a single breath without his ventilator. Not one.

When his tracheostomy tube came off during the night, there was no critical care registered nurse there to reconnect it. The NDIS had decided two years earlier that Noah could be supported by disability support workers instead of registered nurses.

Now, me being a critical care registered nurse myself, that is like flying the airplane with a cabin crew instead of the pilot. That is the best comparison that I have found over the years. Let me repeat that again. Disability support workers instead of critical care registered nurses is the equivalent when it comes to ventilation and tracheostomy, like flying the airplane with a cabin crew instead of the pilot.

As Kylie, Noah’s mom, wrote in her heartbreaking Facebook post, if Noah had been given the support we had pleaded for, he would not have died that morning. He would have had someone sitting next to him, awake, to troubleshoot, to reconnect the ventilation tube to the tracheostomy that somehow came off his ventilator in the early hours of the morning.

Let’s also look at what the independent evidence has said. Here’s what makes this even more tragic. The NDIS’s own independent expert agreed that Noah needed 24-hour critical care registered nursing support. A consultant physician who assessed Noah in May 2025 was crystal clear in his independent medical examination. He stated this was without a doubt the most complicated disability-related assessment he had conducted.

The independent consultant physician confirmed that Noah required critical care registered nurses 24 hours a day because his single lumen tracheostomy was high risk and required ICU-level expertise 24/7. Any disconnection could result in death within minutes. So, the NDIS knew that because it was all documented in an independent physician report. Let me repeat that, what the physician wrote. He said, any disconnection could result in death within minutes, which is exactly what’s happened with Noah. So, the NDIS had this in front of them. They were reading it, and they didn’t believe what an expert witness writes who’s very experienced.

He needed constant monitoring of vital signs due to autonomic dysreflexia. Ventilation management requires specialized critical care nursing skills 24 hours a day. His care needs were well beyond the scope of most hospitals in the state. The independent consultant physician explicitly stated Noah would not have died if 24/7 registered nursing supports were funded by the NDIS. And this goes hand-in-hand with what I’ve been saying here on this blog for the last 12 or 13, maybe even 14 years now.

And when you look on our website at intensivecareathome.com, we have published the evidence-based Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines. This very evidence comes out of over 25 years of Intensive Care at Home nursing in Germany, where it all started, and over 14 years now, Intensive Care at Home nursing in Australia. So, the evidence is crystal clear. We didn’t even need a doctor’s letter, just in case the NDIS, you know, paid for a doctor’s letter. The evidence was there right before the doctor’s letter, you know. So, the NDIS spends money on doctors where the evidence is already there. What a waste of money. Could have gone towards Noah’s care, and Noah would still be alive today.

But let’s also look at the NDIS legislation, because the NDIS legislation is crystal clear. What most families don’t understand is that the NDIS Act actually mandates funding for supports that are reasonable and necessary, and when independent clinical evidence shows 24-hour CCRN support is needed, the NDIA must fund it. Interestingly enough, when Julie Cross reached out to the NDIA from the Daily Telegraph, the NDIS said they were providing care within the guidelines of the Act. What a whole lot of nonsense.

The AAT tribunal was reviewing whether 24-hour registered nurses was reasonable and necessary for Noah. The agency’s own independent expert said yes. Multiple medical professionals said yes. The evidence was overwhelming, and yet led into Noah’s passing. But Noah died while waiting for the tribunal decision that was due in March.

And like I said, we have developed and are working alongside evidence-based, comprehensive based Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines based on evidence and international best practices and our experience caring for ventilator-dependent adults and children since 2012. These evidence-based guidelines clearly outline when critical care registered nurses are essential. For example, the client is completely ventilator-dependent, whether it’s invasive or non-invasive. Single lumen tracheostomy tubes are in use. The risk of sudden airway compromise. Complex medical conditions require 24-hour critical care nursing assessment. Autonomic dysreflexia or cardiac instability is present. Seizure activity requires immediate intervention. Noah met every single one of these criteria.

Let’s now also look what difference a critical care registered nurse makes at home 24 hours a day in Noah’s situation. So let me be very specific about what a critical care registered nurse would have done the night Noah passed away. 2 a.m., routine repositioning checks. They’re happening every 15 minutes. CCRN would have been at Noah’s bedside 24 hours a day, awake and vigilant, similar to ICU. They would have immediately noticed if the ventilator tube became disconnected. Within seconds, they would have reconnected the tube. Noah would have continued breathing. Noah would still be alive. And I also argue, if a 24-hour critical care nurse would have been there, the disconnection wouldn’t have even happened in the first place, because they would have checked as part of their safety checks that the tube is connected properly. Can it still become disconnected? Yes, it can, but it’s much less likely.

It’s not theory. This is what CCRNs do every single night for our clients. We have prevented these tragedies for other clients because we have the training, the vigilance, the accreditation, the clinical expertise, the policies, procedures, the intellectual property, and most importantly, we have the team that makes that happen. Big shout out to our team here at Intensive Care at Home that’s on the road every day saving lives, keeping people alive. And we have the clinical expertise to manage life-threatening emergencies, but more importantly, we have the clinical expertise to ideally prevent those life-threatening emergencies in the first place.

And let me make that crystal clear. Support workers cannot replace CCRNs for ventilation care. The NDIS wanted to replace Noah’s critical care registered nurses with support workers. Let me be absolutely clear about why this is dangerous. Support workers are not trained to manage ventilator parameters and troubleshoot equipment, perform emergency tracheostomy reinsertion, assess and respond to autonomic dysreflexia, titrate oxygen levels based on clinical assessments, distinguish between normal variation and medical emergency, administer emergency medications for seizures.

These are not even tasks that a general registered nurse can perform, i.e., why a specialized nurse, like a critical care nurse, is needed for someone like Noah. Because critical care registered nurses are specifically trained in advanced airway management, ventilation troubleshooting and emergency protocols, rapid assessment and intervention, preventing complications before they become a crisis, life-saving procedures that must happen within seconds.

As the independent physician consultant stated in his report, expecting a high-intensity support worker to manage Noah’s care would be unacceptably risky from a governance point of view, and the worker would potentially be responsible for the preventable death of Mr. Johnston.

Now, by the way, the family had actually contacted disability support worker agencies and nobody would take on Noah because they stated that he was simply too complex. Well, that’s only reasonable from a disability support worker agency point of view, because they recognize the risk and realize that they cannot be responsible for someone’s death.

Now, let’s also look at the cost of getting Noah’s care so wrong. Kylie, Noah’s mom, now has to live with the knowledge that her beautiful son died a preventable death while fighting a system that should have protected him. The NDIS is spending millions on tribunal cases, lawyers, and appeals, including doctors making independent assessments, but then ignoring them. Noah’s family faced a barrister and a team of NDIA lawyers at the tribunal. Imagine if that money had been spent on the nursing care that would have kept Noah alive.

It’s interesting also to note that if Noah would have gone to hospital, he would have had a CCRN. So, does that mean the NDIS is treating clients with a disability in the community as second-class citizens? So as soon as someone enters the hospital system, they get what they need, but as soon as they leave the hospital system and enter the community, they get treated as second-class citizens.

So, what do families need to know right now? If you have a ventilator-dependent family member, or you are ventilator-dependent yourself, listen carefully. You have the right to request independent clinical assessments, demand evidence-based care plans, appeal NDIA decisions that compromise safety, have 24/7 CCRN support funded when clinically necessary as part of your disability.

The evidence you need: medical and nursing reports from treating specialists, independent assessments from physicians, and independent nursing assessments from CCRNs, evidence-based clinical guidelines like our evidence-based mechanical home ventilation guidelines, documentation of specific clinical risks.

The NDIA must fund supports that are reasonable and necessary under the NDIS Act, supported by independent clinical evidence, required to preserve life and prevent harm.

Also, the tribunal statistics tell a story. Here’s something the NDIA doesn’t want you to know. More than 80% of appeals to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal result in decisions favorable to participants. That means the NDIA is getting it wrong 8 out of 10 times when they cut supports and families appeal. But Noah didn’t live to see his tribunal decision. The process was too slow. The system failed him. And one could argue this was done deliberately because they knew the risk was so high for Noah that he would probably die before the tribunal case was getting a hearing, and now it saves them a lot of money. So, it’s money before lives.

So how do we honor Noah’s memory? At Intensive Care at Home, we’re committed to preventing another tragedy like Noah’s death. We’re doing this by educating families about their rights under the NDIS legislation, we’re providing evidence-based clinical guidelines for home ventilation, and we are the only provider in Australia in 2025 that is actually accredited for Intensive Care at Home nursing. And we’re supporting tribunal appeals with expert clinical documentation and advocacy. We’re advocating for policy changes to mandate CCRN staffing standards in the community for Intensive Care at Home. Training the next generation of critical care registered nurses in Intensive Care at Home and home ventilation.

Also, the question every NDIS planner must answer: When you’re reviewing a plan for someone who’s ventilator-dependent, with or without tracheostomy, ask yourself this question. If this person’s ventilator tube comes out at 3 a.m., who will reconnect it within the 60 seconds before brain damage begins? If the answer isn’t a critical care registered nurse who’s awake at the bedside, can recognize clinical signs, can manage an unstable airway, then you’re putting that person’s life at risk. Noah Johnston’s death proves this isn’t hypothetical. It’s life and death. The minute you underestimate that, people die.

So, what needs to change immediately? The NDIS must implement mandatory CCRN requirements for all ventilator-dependent participants, accept independent clinical evidence without lengthy tribunal processes, stop replacing registered nurses with support workers for complex medical care. And I can tell you from my own experience, with all due respect to support workers, they might have worked at Coles last week, and next week, next thing you know, they’re looking after a ventilator and a tracheostomy. Whereas critical care registered nurses go through a lengthy university degree, then clinical practice. It often takes more than five years for a critical care registered nurse to become competent that they can work for us.

So once again, it’s like flying, using a disability support worker instead of a critical care registered nurse is like flying the airplane with the cabin crew instead of the pilot. We know what that would look like.

We also ask the NDIS to fast-track urgent safety-related appeals to prevent deaths during tribunal delays and follow evidence-based clinical guidelines for mechanical home ventilation and the independent nursing and medical assessments.

And to Kylie and Noah’s family, I know you’re reading this. I want you to know that Noah’s death was not in vain. Every family we educate, every tribunal we support, every policy we help change, that’s Noah’s legacy. Your beautiful boy deserved much better from the system, and we’re going to fight to make sure no other family has to bury their child because the NDIS chooses cost-cutting over clinical safety.

If you’re fighting the NDIS for registered nursing support for your ventilator-dependent family member, don’t wait until it’s too late. Contact us today at intensivecareathome.com. If your plan is being reviewed and nurses are being replaced with support workers, you’ve been told support workers can manage ventilation, tracheostomy, and you need independent clinical assessments for tribunals, you’re appealing an NDIS decision about nursing support.

We provide 24-hour critical care registered nurses with ventilation tracheostomy expertise, clinical assessments and evidence for tribunal appeals, education about your rights under the NDIS legislation, and evidence-based care plans that meet clinical guidelines. Don’t let your loved one become another statistic. The tribunal can take months. Your family member needs protection right now.

The bottom line is, Noah Johnston would still be alive today if he’d had a critical care registered nurse at his bedside on December the 8th, 2025. That CCRN would have cost the NDIS approximately $120 to $180 an hour for overnight nursing. Noah’s life was worth infinitely more than that. You cannot put a monetary value on the service we provide, but that’s what the NDIS wants to do. It’s money over lives.

And just to reiterate, when independent clinical evidence shows that 24/7 CCRN support is necessary to preserve life, the NDIS legislation mandates that funding. It’s not optional, it’s not negotiable, it’s actually the law.

Noah’s death must be the catalyst for change. No more families should have to fight tribunals while their loved ones’ lives hang in the balance. No more preventable deaths. Rest in peace, Noah. We’ll keep fighting for the changes that should have saved your life.

So, with all of that said, with Intensive Care at Home, we are currently sending our critical care nurses into the home 24 hours a day. Therefore, we are providing a genuine alternative to a long-term stay in intensive care for ventilation, tracheostomy, home BIPAP (Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure), home CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure), ventilation without tracheostomy and tracheostomy care without ventilation, home TPN, home IV potassium, home IV magnesium, home IV antibiotic, and home IV fluids. We’re providing cough assist management at home, ventilation weaning management at home, central line, PICC line, Hickman’s line, as well as port management at home. We’re also providing nasogastric tube, nasojejunostomy tube, PEG, PEJ tube management at home, as well as IDC (indwelling urinary catheter) and SPC (suprapubic catheter) management at home as well as palliative care services at home.

We’re also sending our critical care nurses into the home for emergency department bypass services. We have done so successfully as part of the Western Sydney Local Area Health District, their in-touch program, saving approximately $2000 per patient that we keep at home instead of them going into an emergency department.

That also means we’re in a position to cut the cost of an ICU bed by around 50%. An intensive care bed costs between $5,000 to $10,000 per bed day depending on location.

Intensive Care at Home costs approximately 50% of that and we’re freeing up the most sought-after bed in the hospital, which is the ICU bed. Most importantly, we’re improving the quality of life for patients and their families, which is a win-win situation for all stakeholders.

With Intensive Care at Home, we’re currently operating all around Australia in all major capital cities as well as in all regional and rural areas. We are an NDIS approved service provider all around Australia, TAC (Transport Accident Commission) and WorkSafe in Victoria, as well as the Department of Veteran Affairs all around Australia, we’re also ISO 9001:2015 accredited.

Our clients and we as a service provider have also received funding through public hospitals, private health funds, as well as departments of health. We are the only service provider in Australia that has achieved third party accreditation for Intensive Care at Home nursing in 2025. We have been achieving this high level of accreditation since 2012. No other provider in Australia has achieved the Intensive Care at Home level of accreditation in the community and has created more intellectual property when it comes to Intensive Care at Home nursing than we have.

This puts us in a position to employ hundreds of years of critical care nursing experience combined in the community. No other service provider in 2025 employs a higher skill level in the community than we do, and that enables us to look after the highest acuity adults and children in the community in Australia safely.

If you’re at home already and you’re watching this or you’re stuck in an ICU and you realize that you don’t have the right level of support, I can give you many examples where we helped clients with funding, how we advocate for funding. We had to go from our first case study to advocate successfully for funding to many other case studies where we had to advocate successfully for funding with the right evidence, of course, because it is crystal clear that, disability support workers, for example, who are registered nurses without ICU experience cannot look after ventilated clients at home, whether adults or children with or without a tracheostomy, and it’s simply dangerous and negligent.

Plenty of examples where clients with support worker models or even RN models without ICU experience have died at home and have evidence to back up everything that I’m saying here because it’s a bit like flying the airplane with a cabin crew instead of the pilot, and it could simply be deadly, and this can be avoided by having, simply 24 hour, critical care nurses at home, because our clients are at high risk of medical emergencies or worse without critical care nurses 24 hours, and this is actually also evidence-based in the community and is documented in our evidence-based Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines on our website at intensivecareathome.com.

Think about it, in an intensive care unit in a hospital, you wouldn’t have support workers or general registered nurses looking after a critical care patient on a ventilator with a tracheostomy, so why would anyone in their right mind do that in a home care environment where there are fewer resources?

Clients that have found us have been at home long-term, predictably and permanently with critical care nurses. They are, alternative would have been to either die or stay in ICU long term and our clients don’t go back to ICU. They stay at home permanently and predictably, and the insurance bodies save half of the cost of an ICU bed it’s a win-win situation all around.

We can do the same for you if you’re stuck in ICU or if you’re not safe at home, which includes the advocacy for funding and the network that goes along with it. We have always successfully advocated for our clients or we have the network to successfully advocate for you and for your family member, otherwise we wouldn’t be in business. The same, again, is applicable for those stuck in an ICU which is similar to many of our, if not most of our cases.

This is also why we are providing NDIS Support Coordination. We have a team of experienced NDIS support coordinators, and they have a wealth of knowledge. We’re also providing TAC case management and WorkSafe case management in Victoria with Lucy McCotter. If you’re an NDIS support coordinator or a case manager or a social worker from another organization or a hospital watching this and you’re looking for nursing care for your participants, please reach out to us as well.

If you’re looking for funding for nursing care for your participants and you don’t know how to go about it and how to advocate for it, what evidence to provide, I encourage you to reach out to us as well, we have the network to make that happen.

We will help you with the right level of funding and with the right level of advocacy. We’re also providing NDIS specialist nursing assessments done by critical care nurses with a legal nurse consulting background.

If you are a critical care nurse and you’re looking for a career change, and you want to join a very progressive, dynamic, successful and high performing team of critical care nurses in the community, we are employing hundreds of years of critical care nursing experience combined.

If you’re looking for a career change, we’re currently hiring for jobs for critical care nurses in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, in Albury, Wodonga, in Bendigo, in Geelong, in Warragul, and also in Wyelangta in Victoria.

If you have worked in critical care nursing for a minimum of 2 years, adult ICU, pediatric ICU, ED, and you have already completed a postgraduate critical care nursing qualification, we will be absolutely delighted hearing from you.

I have a disclaimer though, because we are offering a tailor-made solutions for our clients which includes regular staff. Our clients also do want the same staff coming over and over again because they are so vulnerable and so special, that’s why we need regular, reliable staff.

If you’re looking for agency, work where you can come and go, this will not be the right fit for you. We’re looking for consistency and our clients are looking for consistency, so please only apply with us if you can give us regular and consistent availabilities for shifts and you’re really keen on building relationships with us and with our clients. Reliability is also a must.

If you’re an intensive care specialist or an ED specialist, we also want to hear from you, we’re currently expanding our medical team as well. We can also help you eliminate your bed blocks in your ICU and in your ED for your long-term patients or for your regularly readmitting patients with our critical care nursing team at home.

We’re here to have to take the pressure off your ICU and ED beds, and in most cases, you won’t even pay for it, even if you do pay for it, it is so much more cost-effective than what you’re paying for in ICU and ED settings. You get the same level of care and simply more patient and family satisfaction because you also want to partner with your consumers.

If you are a hospital executive watching this, we can help you free up your ICU and ED (Emergency Department) beds.

If you’re in the U.S. or in the U.K. and you’re watching this and you need help, we want to hear from you as well. We can help you there privately with one-on-one consulting and with hiring nurses privately.

Once again, our website is intensivecareathome.com, call us on one of the numbers on the top of our website or simply send us an email to [email protected].

If you like my videos, click the like button, subscribe to my YouTube Channel for regular updates for families with Intensive Care at Home and intensive care, click the like button, click the notification bell, and share this video with anyone who has a family member in intensive care long term or needs to see this.

Thank you so much for watching.

This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com, and I’ll talk to you in a few days.

Take care for now.

So, with all of that said, with Intensive Care at Home, we are currently sending our critical care nurses into the home 24 hours a day. Therefore, we are providing a genuine alternative to a long-term stay in intensive care for ventilation, tracheostomy, home BIPAP (Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure), home CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure), ventilation without tracheostomy and tracheostomy care without ventilation, home TPN, home IV potassium, home IV magnesium, home IV antibiotic, and home IV fluids. We’re providing cough assist management at home, ventilation weaning management at home, central line, PICC line, Hickman’s line, as well as port management at home. We’re also providing nasogastric tube, nasojejunostomy tube, PEG, PEJ tube management at home, as well as IDC (indwelling urinary catheter) and SPC (suprapubic catheter) management at home as well as palliative care services at home.

We’re also sending our critical care nurses into the home for emergency department bypass services (https://intensivecareathome.com/does-your-hospital-want-a-home-ed-emergency-department-bypass-service-and-improve-ed-access/). We have done so successfully as part of the Western Sydney Local Area Health District, their in-touch program, saving approximately $2000 per patient that we keep at home instead of them going into an emergency department.

That also means we’re in a position to cut the cost of an ICU bed by around 50%. An intensive care bed costs between $5,000 to $10,000 per bed day depending on location.

Intensive Care at Home costs approximately 50% of that and we’re freeing up the most sought-after bed in the hospital, which is the ICU bed. Most importantly, we’re improving the quality of life for patients and their families, which is a win-win situation for all stakeholders.

With Intensive Care at Home, we’re currently operating all around Australia in all major capital cities as well as in all regional and rural areas. We are an NDIS approved service provider all around Australia, TAC (Transport Accident Commission) and WorkSafe in Victoria, as well as the Department of Veteran Affairs all around Australia, we’re also ISO 9001:2015 accredited.

Our clients and we as a service provider have also received funding through public hospitals, private health funds, as well as departments of health. We are the only service provider in Australia that has achieved third party accreditation for Intensive Care at Home nursing in 2025. We have been achieving this high level of accreditation since 2012. No other provider in Australia has achieved the Intensive Care at Home level of accreditation in the community and has created more intellectual property when it comes to Intensive Care at Home nursing than we have.

This puts us in a position to employ hundreds of years of critical care nursing experience combined in the community. No other service provider in 2025 employs a higher skill level in the community than we do, and that enables us to look after the highest acuity adults and children in the community in Australia safely.

If you’re at home already and you’re watching this or you’re stuck in an ICU and you realize that you don’t have the right level of support, I can give you many examples where we helped clients with funding, how we advocate for funding. We had to go from our first case study to advocate successfully for funding to many other case studies where we had to advocate successfully for funding with the right evidence, of course, because it is crystal clear that, disability support workers, for example, who are registered nurses without ICU experience cannot look after ventilated clients at home, whether adults or children with or without a tracheostomy, and it’s simply dangerous and negligent.

Plenty of examples where clients with support worker models or even RN models without ICU experience have died at home and have evidence to back up everything that I’m saying here because it’s a bit like flying the airplane with a cabin crew instead of the pilot, and it could simply be deadly, and this can be avoided by having, simply 24 hour, critical care nurses at home, because our clients are at high risk of medical emergencies or worse without critical care nurses 24 hours, and this is actually also evidence-based in the community and is documented in our evidence-based Mechanical Home Ventilation Guidelines on our website at intensivecareathome.com.

Think about it, in an intensive care unit in a hospital, you wouldn’t have support workers or general registered nurses looking after a critical care patient on a ventilator with a tracheostomy, so why would anyone in their right mind do that in a home care environment where there are fewer resources?

Clients that have found us have been at home long-term, predictably and permanently with critical care nurses. They are, alternative would have been to either die or stay in ICU long term and our clients don’t go back to ICU. They stay at home permanently and predictably, and the insurance bodies save half of the cost of an ICU bed it’s a win-win situation all around.

We can do the same for you if you’re stuck in ICU or if you’re not safe at home, which includes the advocacy for funding and the network that goes along with it. We have always successfully advocated for our clients or we have the network to successfully advocate for you and for your family member, otherwise we wouldn’t be in business. The same, again, is applicable for those stuck in an ICU which is similar to many of our, if not most of our cases.

This is also why we are providing NDIS Support Coordination. We have a team of experienced NDIS support coordinators, and they have a wealth of knowledge. We’re also providing TAC case management and WorkSafe case management in Victoria with Lucy McCotter. If you’re an NDIS support coordinator or a case manager or a social worker from another organization or a hospital watching this and you’re looking for nursing care for your participants, please reach out to us as well.

If you’re looking for funding for nursing care for your participants and you don’t know how to go about it and how to advocate for it, what evidence to provide, I encourage you to reach out to us as well, we have the network to make that happen.

We will help you with the right level of funding and with the right level of advocacy. We’re also providing NDIS specialist nursing assessments done by critical care nurses with a legal nurse consulting background.

If you are a critical care nurse and you’re looking for a career change, and you want to join a very progressive, dynamic, successful and high performing team of critical care nurses in the community, we are employing hundreds of years of critical care nursing experience combined.

If you’re looking for a career change, we’re currently hiring for jobs for critical care nurses in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, in Albury, Wodonga, in Bendigo, in Geelong, in Warragul, and also in Wyelangta in Victoria.

If you have worked in critical care nursing for a minimum of 2 years, adult ICU, pediatric ICU, ED, and you have already completed a postgraduate critical care nursing qualification, we will be absolutely delighted hearing from you.

I have a disclaimer though, because we are offering a tailor-made solutions for our clients which includes regular staff. Our clients also do want the same staff coming over and over again because they are so vulnerable and so special, that’s why we need regular, reliable staff.

If you’re looking for agency, work where you can come and go, this will not be the right fit for you. We’re looking for consistency and our clients are looking for consistency, so please only apply with us if you can give us regular and consistent availabilities for shifts and you’re really keen on building relationships with us and with our clients. Reliability is also a must.

If you’re an intensive care specialist or an ED specialist, we also want to hear from you, we’re currently expanding our medical team as well. We can also help you eliminate your bed blocks in your ICU and in your ED for your long-term patients or for your regularly readmitting patients with our critical care nursing team at home.

We’re here to have to take the pressure off your ICU and ED beds, and in most cases, you won’t even pay for it, even if you do pay for it, it is so much more cost-effective than what you’re paying for in ICU and ED settings. You get the same level of care and simply more patient and family satisfaction because you also want to partner with your consumers.

If you are a hospital executive watching this, we can help you free up your ICU and ED (Emergency Department) beds.

If you’re in the U.S. or in the U.K. and you’re watching this and you need help, we want to hear from you as well. We can help you there privately with one-on-one consulting and with hiring nurses privately.

Once again, our website is intensivecareathome.com, call us on one of the numbers on the top of our website or simply send us an email to [email protected].

If you like my videos, click the like button, subscribe to my YouTube Channel for regular updates for families with Intensive Care at Home and intensive care, click the like button, click the notification bell, and share this video with anyone who has a family member in intensive care long term or needs to see this.

Thank you so much for watching.

This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com, and I’ll talk to you in a few days.

Take care for now.